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CHERTSEY, Thomas, of Rochester, Kent.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
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Before serving in the Parliament of 1410 Chertsey made an agreement with the bailiff and commonalty of Rochester to ask no more for his parliamentary wages than 4 s. a week. He witnessed a deed at Rochester in February 1417, and in 1423 was mentioned as a parishioner of the newly consecrated church of St. Nicholas.
C219/10/5; Harl. Ch. 49 F 16; Reg. Roffense ed. Thorpe, 568. Edmund Chertsey, MP for Rochester in 1460, was perhaps his gds.